KUALA PERLIS, Aug 18 – Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) proudly celebrates the success of its UTM AIROST team, which secured two awards at the prestigious RoboCup Malaysia Open 2025. The competition was officially launched by the Raja Muda of Perlis, Tuanku Syed Faizuddin Putra Jamalullail, with the Raja Puan Muda of Perlis, Tuanku Dr. Hajah Lailatul Shahreen Akashah Khalil, also attending the opening ceremony.
The event took place from August 14 to 18, 2025, at Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP) and brought together 48 teams and 225 participants from 14 institutions and 7 schools, including international teams from China and Iran, who competed in various challenge categories.
In this year’s RoboCup Malaysia Open 2025, UTM AIROST secured 2nd place in the Education challenge. This challenge required each team to develop a service robot capable of performing real-world domestic and assistive tasks, such as object recognition, human-robot interaction, search and navigation within a home environment. Winners were determined by the total score accumulated across all tasks. Notably, UTM AIROST achieved a record-breaking score of 360 points in the “Find My Mate” task, the highest among all participants.
In addition to their commendable performance in the Education category, UTM AIROST also won the Special Award in the Rescue Hackathon challenge. Team representative Ahmad Syukri Mohd Shamsul successfully developed an award-winning Robot Operating System (ROS) program designed for search and rescue operations.
The UTM AIROST team consists of undergraduates from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering (FKE) and the Faculty of Computing (FC). Team members include Benjamin Lim Shi Hern (Team Leader), Ahmad Syukri Mohd Shamsul, Tan Yu Jin, Yan Jiarong, Xavier Sutarman, Eleanor Ting, Angela Ngu Xin Yi, Tey Zhong Hern, and Manfred Cheong Yu Shean, all under the supervision of Associate Professor Dr. Eileen Su Lee Ming.
This dual achievement highlights UTM’s continued excellence in robotics innovation and education on the international stage. The outstanding performance of AIROST not only reflects the technical capabilities of its students but also showcases the university’s commitment to nurturing talent in the cutting-edge fields of artificial intelligence and robotics.
